Have you ever wanted to share your Microsoft Access application to users outside of your LAN? Typically, this means either rewriting it as a Web application or implementing replication but the Cloud changes all that. The following article will show you simple steps to moving your Microsoft Access database to the Cloud.

While it is very common to store SSIS packages created using SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio in the file system, it is important to realize that there are other options. This article provides a comprehensive overview of all of the options, including their benefits and drawbacks, focusing on their ability to protect package content from unauthorized changes.

As enterprises add systems and acquire companies, they will most likely find themselves faced with a growing inconsistency amongst core data utilized by their key systems. This leads to an inability to provide quality data to management. Master Data Services for SQL Server provides a means to centrally manage and serve up this critical enterprise data.

The two basic types of data structure transformation terms, Restructuring and Reshaping, are used interchangeably with data structure transformations. This article categorizes and defines these two types of data structure transformations and uses SQL to demonstrate the transformations, using SQL's natural hierarchical data structure processing capability.

Interviewing for a PL/SQL developer position ultimately will turn towards talking about database structures and objects. This article goes beyond the basic table and index questions that you might expect and offers a tip or two designed to impress the interviewer.

The Complete Guide to Building Cloud Computing Solutions with Amazon SimpleDB. 'Introducing Amazon SimpleDB' is extracted from 'A Developer's Guide to Amazon SimpleDB', published by Addison-Wesley Professional.

Increasingly, enterprises are looking at cloud services such as Amazon Web Services for their deployments. Datacenter virtualization is much more sophisticated than its desktop counterpart is, providing a whole suite of tools that allow you to control every aspect of your deployments. Join Sean Hull as he explores the MySQL - Amazon EC2 solution.

When involved in application performance tuning, the database administrator usually concentrates on reducing elapsed times or I/O waits. Too often, the CPU is forgotten, perhaps because of recent advances in CPU speeds, parallelism, and specialty processors.

Can corporate business intelligence be delivered to mobile devices? Are the current Mobile Business Intelligence solutions viable? Learn which major business intelligence vendors are starting to supply either fully-fledged Mobile Business Intelligence tools or intermediate tools that allow companies to display their chosen BI solution on mobile devices.

Fragmentation relates to index entries that are out of sequence, which for queries that access data sequentially, leads to additional work to retrieve the index's data. This excerpt from the book SQL Server DMVs in Action discusses a script for identifying the most fragmented indexes. Fragmentation affects query performance and should be removed.

IBM DB2 database administrators can now rename a column without the need to unload, drop, rebuild, reload and re-grant on the table. Rebecca Bond introduces AUTO_REVAL, a recent addition to IBM DB2 configuration options.

In the spirit of David Letterman's Top Ten lists, here is a look at what IT management requires from database management systems (DBMSs).

Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) has seen many changes lately. Keeping up with new features in the Oracle RDBMS can be challenging enough, but when you add changes to products, you may have your work cut out for you. This article explores some updates in OWB for Oracle11gR2 (plus some of the changes between 10g and 11g).

SQL server 2008 improves developer productivity by providing seamless integration between frameworks, data connectivity technologies, programming languages, Web services, development tools and data. This article covers the top 10 developer features introduced in SQL server 2008.

Learn how the DTExec and DTExecUI utilities give you the ability to assign values to arbitrary properties of components within a SQL Server Integration Services package, when invoking its execution.

Cursors provide a means of processing through a set of records row-by-row. However, many companies have a policy against using cursors in their SQL Server standards. This article examines the problem with cursors and alternatives to using them.

SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS), introduced with SQL Server 2005 and enhanced in SQL Server 2008, allows you to write queuing/message based applications within the database itself. This article discusses creating an application in which Initiator and Target both are in the same database.

SQL Plan Baselines are a new feature in Oracle Database 11g that helps to prevent repeatedly used SQL statements from regressing because a newly generated execution plan is less effective than what was originally in the library cache. Read on to learn more...

James Koopman discusses how to give/take/study for an Oracle Database PL/SQL developer position, with a look at the top five questions he would ask potential Oracle Database PL/SQL Developers to help assess his/her basic knowledge.

Knowing and working with master-master replication and keeping a true hot standby is very important, especially when your business requires a fast failover with the least amount of downtime. This article focuses on the wonderful world of multi-master replication. Knowing how to setup and implement multi-master replication is the next step to faster, automated failover.